Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!think!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!stat!fsu!prism!chmsr!tg From: tg@chmsr (T. Govindaraj) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Lisp problems and questions Keywords: CLOS, Allegro CL Message-ID: <3608@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 19 Nov 89 21:46:14 GMT Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Reply-To: tg@chmsr.gatech.edu (T. Govindaraj) Distribution: na Organization: Center for Human-Machine Systems Research Lines: 52 A few weeks ago I sent the following mail message to someone at Franz, Inc. concerning some problems with Lisp. Apparently it failed to reach him. Can someone on the net help me? Thanks very much. govind ____________________________ I ftp'ed the clman stuff from the berkeley machine and tried to install. I am having some problems. I think the problems arise due to the use of load-file and concat. When I changed load-file to load, and concat to concatenate (with 'string), it doesn't work either. It complains that there is an "Error in init file." When I comment out the loading of the file "next-clman.el", emacs does not complain. I can get help for "apropos" using Esc. a. Am I doing something obviusly wrong? (I should tell you that I am not an emacs expert, yet. My lisp experience is on the Xerox D-machines and on Mac IIs (Allegro CL in Mac OS).) I have another problem with Lisp on the NeXT machine, this time with pcl. I cannot manage to compile pcl. It goes on merrily until it starts to compile fixup.cl. It fails with the following message: ; --- Compiling file /usr/cl/pcl/fixup.cl --- ; Compiling print-iwmc-class Error (from error): No matching method for the generic-function #, when called with arguments (#). ; Auto-exit ; Exiting Lisp *** Exit 1 Stop. I would like to compile pcl because make-instance doesn't work the way I expect it to work. It doesn't let me initialize variables at the time of creation. make-instance does not accept any arguments other than the class name. I thought a freshly compiled pcl will help. I would appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction. Thank you very much. govind T. Govindaraj, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering Voice: (404) 894 3873, Fax: (404) 894 2301 tg@chmsr.UUCP or tg@chmsr.gatech.edu